Sense can support herself handsomely in most countries on some eighteen pence a day; but for fantasy, planets and solar systems, will not suffice.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.

A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.

Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.

We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason.